MAHATMA GANDHI

1. EDU – 01
KNOWLEDGE AND CURRICULUM PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Submitted to,
Mr.George Varghese
Mount tabor training college
Pathanapuram
TOPIC :- MAHATMA GANDHI
Submitted by,
Akhila M R
Social science
Mount tabor training college
Pathanapuram

3. MAHATMA GANDHI
• Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948); honored by the people of India as the father of the
nation is the most towering personality of modern India.
• He was a religious saint, a politician, a patriot and nationalist, an economist, a great
freedom fighter, and a practical educator, all in one.
Important works : An Autobiography of My Experiments with Truth, Satyagraha in
South Africa, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule.

4. GANDHIJI’S PHILOSOPHY
Gandhiji was a practical idealist. He regarded truth as the supreme law and
non-violence as the most sacred duty. The following are the important tenets of Gandhiji’s
philosophy:
• The ultimate reality that exists is truth. Truth and God are one and the same thing.
• Ahimsa (non-violence ) is the only means to the realization of Truth and God.
• Satyagraha is search for truth; and God is Truth.
• Fasting is the highest expression of the prayer of a pure and loving heart.

5. GANDHIJI’S SYSTEM OF BASIC EDUCATION
Basic education or Wardha Scheme of Education is a national system of
education put forward by Mahatma Gandhi in 1937 as a revolt against the sterile, book-centred,
examination oriented system of education propagated by the British. This system is called by the
name ‘Wardha scheme’ because the salient features of this scheme of education was first
presented by Gandhiji in the All India National Education Conference held at Wardha (near
Nagpur, Maharashtra) on 1937.Gandhiji used the term basic to describe his scheme of education
because it is intimately related with the basic needs and interest of Indian children..

6. FEATURES OF BASIC EDUCATION
• The core aim of Basic Education is to help students to develop self-sufficiency.
• It envisages free, compulsory and universal education within the age group 7 to 14.
• The medium of education is mother tongue.
• It is aimed to develop human values in the child.
• It is aimed to achieve the harmonious development of the child’s body, mind, heart and soul.
• Play is an essential part of basic education.
• It is self-supported through some productive work.

7. GANDHIJI'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION
Gandhiji‘s contribution to education is unique. He was the first Indian who advocated a
scheme of education based upon the essential values of Indian culture and civilization. His important
contributions to education are the following :
• Gandhiji put forth a very comprehensive and practical system of education suited to the genius of our
country. It is a constructive and human system integrated with needs and ideals of normal life.
• He presented a practical scheme of education based on the principles of equity, social justice, non-
violence, human dignity, economic well being, and cultural self-respect.
• Gandhiji gave a very broad-based concept of education describing it as all round development of human
personality.

8. • The method of teaching suggested by Gandhiji is highly pragmatic and pedagogically sound. Principles
like activity-centeredness, learning by doing, correlation of subjects, learner activity, ideas of
experimentation, project method, teaching and learning through participation etc, are highly
appreciated by world educationists.
• Gandhiji succeeded in presenting a type of education which can provide the necessary economic self-
sufficiency and self-reliance.
• He suggested a very practical and broad-based curriculum. It is indeed an integrated curriculum which
is psychologically sound.
• He recommended immediate and ultimate aims of education which are in accordance with the Indian
socio-political, economic, cultural and social needs.
• Gandhiji’s educational scheme revived India’s economic, social and cultural life through the
instrumentality of a handicraft.